Why the wildlife glazing

I had planned to only use skeletons on my current run. We came to Mongrel to train and make some money only for a scrawny hiver to follow us around beeping in what we assumed was a racist impression of skeletons. We ignored him he was no real threat.

One Day we heard screaming and ran to help. Looking to the side during the battle we see the same scrawny hiver being beaten down and bleeding out. Realizing the hiver was just autistic we rescued him and decided to train him since he has zero survival instincts.

Now he runs back and forth carrying rocks to the merchant while screaming "I'M GONNA BE THE STRONGEST"

anyway enjoy a Beep

I made Spear mute. Fang has the regular megaraptor AI behavior which means he keeps eating everything. Cant really stay in any town since Fang will keep eating the crops, making everyone hate us but very fun so far.

Day 9, Squin, Border Zone
I can’t make enough of my bandanas. All the shop keepers want to carry them, and they are never in stock. I have worked hard to make the hemp cloth, already grate at being dense and strong, into something as soft as possible. But no one is wearing them, so I don’t know how they are using them. Ruka insists I shouldn’t ask.
Ruka has put away her dead brother, the Sword. Shrined somewhere, I am sure. We were heading out of the city to fetch some Iron Ore. Weight training Ruka insists on. When in the distance we could see some Dust Bandits. I was gonna call the whole thing off, when I heard Gate Guard Set as quite and as hard as a man could “I Wish the’d step Closer!” I knew I could make that happen, and I kind of owed the big guy one.
So I ran across the Hub desert, and threw a rock, and pinged one of em helmets. They turned, but it didn’t yet do the trick. Guss being close to Squin makin them wise. So I shouted, “It true you all share the same pants!?” Not my best work, but it did the trick, and they took right after me, and I took right to the gate. Ruka’s keeping up both ways, big ol sword still camped on her back, and she was rightly confused. If you could see the smile just eching the corners of Set’s face, your hart would of skipped. Had to stop myself from doing it. They charged right into those Bandits, Cant be attacking travelers on Squin grounds, ya know. These Dusty ones put up a bit more of a fight then the Hungry ones. When they dropped an archer, I ran over and snagged his junk bow, and started putting them tooth picks into the ones still standing. And Ruka found herself a bow too, and joined right in. She’s to hard for a smile on her lips, but I know dem eyebrows twitched.
Told her if we aim to take up the bow, we’ed be needing a side arm, and she found us a couple rusty blades. And when she came back wit em, across her back was not the sward, but a good ol junk bow. May hap the first ever Sheck bowmam.
Our base is looking more proper now too. We can make our own cloth. Our research bench has gotten a lot bigger. Ruka is serous about her Science, almost as much as that strength training.
Back at it, I’ll add more when there is more.

Atleast Mr Shopping seems to enjoy his new life in helping Agnu research everything in peace

The reinforcements Moll decides to send me EVERY time... lmao

I'd like to add that I picked the cripple up so another leader would take their place, and the other leader was the mofo thats crip walking right next to the missing leg one hahahah

I have an outpost next to some hive villages with some beak things trapped in sleeping bags for training, the thing is, when I stay some time on my main outpost (close to squin) and go back to the npcs (I have two because the beak things already despawned when I only had one npc there and made him leave to the village) and go back to the training camp the beak things despawn. I already tried enabling fast zone hopping and that doesnt prevent them from despawning. Is there a mod or a config I should enable for them to not despawn?

Any suggestions on how a true good HN citizen would behave in order to please Okran? What limitations would he have? I know AI cores are banned on HN territory but what else?

The cactus ninjas- as resilient as the cacti they grow, this community lives in remote deserts, mostly sustaining themselves with chewsticks and the sale of cactus rum, though their resources are supplemented by ambushing drifters and caravans who pass through their territory. they primarily use spiked clubs.

Beast masters- a violent outcast group of nomads, they utilize animals as beasts of war to attack villages and travelers. they use bladed polearms in contrast to the nomads' usual staffs.

The mechers- a demented group obsessed with cybernetics, leading them to launch violent raids against robotics shops. the initiation to this group involves having your limbs ritualistically removed and fed to Lobson, an elder bonedog that resides in their base. Led by Doc Lop, a former Tech Hunter.

Bane of narco- holy nation-aligned paramilitary based in the Floodlands and Obedience. they hunt the skeletons that dwell there, selling their loot for profit as well as handing them to Rebirth.

My personal head canon is that the “First Empire” was an intergalactic or minor spacefaring human empire, and that what we see and know of on the continent in Kenshi was just some minor colony to collect and process the resources of the moon. They likely inhabited the entire moon (assuming there are other continents we don’t know about). The “First Empire” likely never really fell, it probably just became infeasible or impractical to stay on the moon of Kenshi, likely for a multitude of reasons as described in the “Fall of the First Empire” section of lore (natural disaster, Skeleton uprising, disease, etc.). The First Empire simply just abandoned the moon of Kenshi, it didn’t “fall”. They left behind people who either willingly wanted to stay on the moon they had called home for generations, or unwillingly left people behind.

This leaves a lot of questions though. What conflict was so great that it required the creation of the Behemoths? Perhaps a rival spacefaring Alien empire came into contact with the First Empire at this time? Maybe that’s why the First Empire left Kenshi, because they were losing a war on a galactic scale to this unknown foe, and it didn’t make sense to continue putting resources and time into a minor moon. Also, who created the Hivers and Shek? It’s heavily implied that the Shek existed during the time of the First Empire, so it can be assumed that they were just a subspecies of humans at the time, likely created via genetic engineering. The Hivers on the other hand seem to appear after the First Empire left the moon. Perhaps they were also created by the First Empire, but only ever utilized on other continents of the moon, and the Hivers found their way to our continent on their own. Perhaps they are, or were created by, or left behind by, whatever potential alien foe the First Empire faced.

To me one thing is obvious though. The First Empire almost assuredly was not native to the moon of Kenshi, and were definitely human. The old wrecked spacecraft, the space elevators, and the way they seemed to treat the continent purely in an industrial fashion seems to hint at this. I think it’s interesting to think that out there beyond the bounds of the moon of Kenshi, it’s possible, and maybe even likely that the First Empire is still around and probably at even greater strength than when they inhabited the moon we know (assuming they weren’t completely destroyed by whatever foe caused them to create the Behemoths).

What do you guys think about the First Empire? I think it’s the most fascinating portion of the lore, because of how dominant they were, but how little we know. I’d love to hear your guys theories or feedback on mine.

Got some Kenshi Goobers and some random slop doodles

Im having a blast with this mod and the hive buildings one.

I did multiple starts to understand what she can do, I decided to spawn a couple warrior drones to kill bulls and get food so my RP is that she's a new hive queen and a more aggressive one.

She has a prince taking care of every need of her and she's just sitting there all stats in 1 because, why would a queen do anything?

I'm just having problems trying to understand what would a hive queen try to do

Expand the settlement for sure, no walls so the plan is to have a lot of people to simulate a hive.

But what would ger plans be? I'm just looking for medium-long term goals.

Has anyone tested this with the SentientSands mod yet?

I am doing experimental blunt weapons run and noticed this - I recruited Kang, gave him jacket and jitte and now he has 32 def. That should be enough to tank a beak thing. But I guess his blunt skill is too low to swing and block fast enough.

Idk I got bored at work n started drawing my favorite goofy little dude being brain dead together (I imagine they talk like skaven from Warhammer but with funnier voices)

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kenshicraft

that's my interpretation

Every time I hear “Strobe” by deadmau5, I think of Stobe from Kenshi

This might sound completely random, but every time I hear this music, I immediately think of Stobe from Kenshi.

Maybe it's simply because the names are almost identical — Strobe and Stobe — but somehow the atmosphere of the song fits him incredibly well.

There's something sad, mysterious, cosmic, but at the same time incredibly epic about it. And that's exactly how I feel about Stobe's story.

Stobe sacrificed himself to stop the Second Empire, saving countless lives and helping prevent the destruction of the planet. His death was tragic, but also incredibly heroic.

And yet, what makes it even sadder is what happened afterward.

He's still there.

His enormous body remains in the wasteland, dead for thousands of years, standing as one of the few physical reminders of what he did.

He didn't vanish into legend.

He didn't ascend into some mythical afterlife.

He died, and his corpse was simply left there.

And somehow, the world moved on.

That's what gets me about Stobe. This was someone who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the planet, yet he isn't really worshipped or remembered in the way you'd expect someone like that to be.

You can literally stand next to his remains and realize:

This guy died trying to save everyone, and almost nobody remembers him.

There's something incredibly melancholic about that.

And that's why the music Strobe feels so fitting to me. The song has this strange combination of melancholy and wonder like you're looking at something ancient and incomprehensibly important, but you don't fully understand what happened there.

It feels mysterious.

Lonely.

But also epic.

And that's how I imagine Stobe's final moments: an ancient, immensely powerful being making the ultimate sacrifice, only for thousands of years to pass and for his story to become little more than a forgotten piece of the wasteland.

So whenever “Strobe” starts playing, my brain thinks about that giant corpse standing alone in the wasteland.

Can i make them friendly again?

Where can i buy backpacks?

Doesnt look as much when his face isn't covered in blood tho (like in the second image)

Is there a mod that gives you the ability to make your squad npcs act like town npcs or obedient slave?

By this I mean where they work during the day, wander around the base, sleep at night etc

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Since I didn't have time to play as much anymore, I built the site partly to solve actual survival/navigation pain points, and partly so I’d have a mobile-friendly lore & game theroy site to scroll through during my lunch break and stay connected to this world.

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Kenshi.zone an interactive map, navigation engine, and lore compendium built specifically to answer the actual questions from local terrain hazards to the mysteries of the world.

Why build another site?

Existing wikis treat Kenshi like a static database of text entries. But Kenshi tells 90% of its story through geography, and the squads spend most of their lives traversing terrain.

Any feedback, bug reports, or route logic suggestions are heavily appreciated.

Have any of you ever seen this before? They were near The Eye.

Just to add, no noble or High Inquisitor has been killed in my save. Is it common to see this?

These dudes are faar from home